> Shorting a stock, and then making big, loud, public moral assertions about the company is totally unscrupulous, obviously, because it undermines the 'moral argument' being made.

Only if those assertions are untrue, I'd say.

> This is why Private Wealth managers are not supposed to hustle the stocks of the companies their firm's Investment Bankers are advising - it's a conflict of interest. That is actually illegal for example.

They have a fiduciary duty, don't they? Soros doesn't have one.